Foreword
The Tech Coalition envisions a digital world where children are free to play, learn, and explore without fear of harm. We have long understood that transparency is a crucial component for achieving this vision, making it one of the original pillars of Project Protect. Transparency underpins our mission to unite the global tech industry to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse.
In order to promote industry transparency, we developed and launched Trust: Voluntary Framework for Industry Transparency in 2022. By providing guidance to tech companies on transparency reporting, the Trust Framework aims to ensure that industry is proactively being accountable to the global community in honoring our commitment to combat online CSEA.
While the Trust Framework laid out a set of voluntary commitments for industry, the transparency landscape has shifted in recent years with regulation such as the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). With this in mind, we partnered with Tremau, a Trust & Safety solution provider and DSA expert, to create a guide explaining how the Trust Framework interacts with the DSA’s transparency requirements with respect to CSEA and how to operationalize reporting in this new era. We believe that mandatory transparency reporting provides an opportunity for companies to go above and beyond in demonstrating their belief in the importance of transparency.
